The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-02
dashed BY AN EDITOR
Rosewater, of the ''Bee," After
the Union Pacific.
THE Q. S. MARsHAL'S ANTICS.
Some Serious Charges Againt q. P
Oficials-The Vote OF the Shops
Political Wire Pulling.
Redhot at Rosewater.

OMAHA, July before the Pacific
Railway Investigation Commission to
day, Edward Rosewster, editor of the
Omaha Bee, testified that it has been fo1
years the practice of the United States
Marshal of Nebraska and his deputies
to travel on free passes over the Union
Pacific Railroad and to charge the
government 10 cents a mile for every
mile so travelled.
Commissioner Littler asked the wit
ness if he did not know that the Mar
shall had to swear to his accounts when
rendered and that he had to swear that
no portion of the trips charged for were
MADE BY A FREE PASS.
Witness did not know how that was,
but he knew that passes were used.
He had himself seen a deputy United
States marshal travelling on such a
pass, from whom he learned that the
deputy had to share with the marshal
for the travelling fees allowed by gov
eminent for Just such trips. The
C urt officers generally in Nebraska
Mr.. Rosewater added, have always
SHOWN GREAT SUBSERVIENCE
to the railroad power. He produced a
copy OF the election telegram alluded to
in his testimony given some days ago
before the commission. The telegram
is from the general attorney of the
Union Pac fic Company to the general
manager and assistant genera man
ager, and reads as follows:
OMAHA. October IS, 1873.
s. Il. H. Clark, President, and J. Z. K3mbaE,
DeRrer:
The vote OF the shops viii probably de-
eide the election. and it is said it win go
solid against Grebe for sheriff. He
HAS SERVED THE ROAD
better than any sheriff we ever had. Can't
you give this vote? l think you should, if
possible If you agree, instruct the proper
parties to give him the vote and send me a
copy OF your telegram.
Mr.. Poppleton explains that his
course in sending the telegram had been
dictated by the fact that passengers on
the Union Pacific Company's trains had
been persistently robbed by three card
monte men, and the man Grebe re-
ferred to in the dispatch was the only
man found able to handle the gamblers
Peter A. Dey, one of the railroad
commissioners of the Union Pacific
Road, in answer to question by Gov
ernor Pattison, testified that the pro
motors of the Union Pacific Railway
had employed him, in 1862, to survey
and estimate on the cost of a proposed
road, when he gave an estimate of $780,
600 mile on the first 1000 miles,
He was
DIRECTED FROM HEADQUARTERS
to increase the amount to $50, 900. so as
to make it appear that the road was an
expensive one to build. From his
to comply with this de
mand, his resignation came out. He
believed the entire road could now be
paralleled for $25 900 mile. A number
of other witnesses were examined with
out eliclting anything of material i'm
portance.
A letter was received from Gay G.
Barton. President of the Omaha IL
Grant Smelling and Refining Company,
Of Omaha, in compliance with the re-
quest of the Commission showing
that the total amount of rebates and
overcharges paid TO that company by the
Union Pacific from September 1st, 1884,